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Staff can Post hidden Posts · **Released**: 05-07-2004

If you have installed that Hack by Chen, you will already know what this Hack does.
If not i'll shortly explain: If you install this hack, your staff will be able to post hidden posts, which are just visible by other staffmembers. This can be usefull, if you are not sure, what to do with a thread, and want feedback by the other mods.

I have to say, that this is not an easy hack, so do not install it, if you are not familar with vB hacking, as i won't give much support.
I have put the basic instructions into the Installfile, which does everything needed.
The instructions in the advanced install file, are for those who have already installed this hack, and want to get some more features (like number of new hidden posts in the navbar and such things).

Have fun, we always have

yakusasc · #**142** 01-25-2005, 09:17 PM

And is there a simple way to modify yours ? On forumdisplay.php, people allowed to see hidden posts would see them in the last answer area.

Xenon · #**143** 01-25-2005, 09:19 PM

would need a bit more hacking, and as it would be a security issue for others (or at least annoying if everyone sees there is a msg, but no idea what)
i won't code it into

yakusasc · #**144** 01-25-2005, 09:23 PM

Ok

! thanks for your help ! If one day you create such a hack, don't forget your french friend

!

Oblivion Knight · #**145** 01-26-2005, 09:57 AM

I've been looking for this for ages! I was certain that I wasn't daydreaming..

I'll install this one when I have a spare 10/15 minutes.

Xenon · #**146** 01-26-2005, 03:37 PM

it's a hack i don't want to be missing here on this site

kall · #**147** 02-04-2005, 06:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xenon

nope, hidden posts don't update the thread/forum infos, so that really no user can know a hidden post was made

Which part of the hack controls this?

I'm trying to apply the same concept to the 'Completely Private Threads' hack.

Xenon · #**148** 02-05-2005, 10:51 AM

actually that part is done by the plain vb.

if the visible flag is set to 0, it assumes that a thread/post is under moderation and therefore doesn'T update the infos

Imperial Fritz · #**149** 03-27-2005, 06:21 AM

Hope this doesn't sound too stupid - who exactly count as "staff"? I have mods, supermods and a group which again has supermod rights but can see some deeper forums. Are all people with some kind of modding rights counted by this hack?

Xenon · #**150** 03-28-2005, 02:59 PM

there is a function created with this hack:

PHP Code:


			
function can_see_hidden($usergroupid = 0)

{

    global $bbuserinfo;



    if ($usergroupid == 0)

    {

        $usergroupid = $bbuserinfo['usergroupid'];

    }

    return in_array($usergroupid, array(5, 6, 7));  // replace the usergroupids you want

}

the default setting as you can see takes all users which are primary users in mod/supermod/admin group

you can of course change that yourself to include/exclude whoever you want.

Allan · #**151** 05-07-2005, 09:37 PM

Hey Xenon

work with 3.0.7 ?

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